American Reacts to Words that are Different in Britain

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    As an American there are many words we use here in the United States that have a completely different meaning in Britain. Today I am very interested in learning about words that Brits use differently. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

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  • @rocketrabble6737
    @rocketrabble6737 Před 2 měsíci +14

    I'm English, knocking on a bit, and can confirm that 'carry on' or 'carrying on' was definitely a way of alluding to having a 'bit of how's your father' with someone other than your 'trouble and strife' or 'old pot and pan'. I'm sure I've made myself clear.

  • @alisonrodger3360
    @alisonrodger3360 Před 2 měsíci +45

    'Carry On' Screaming/Camping/Cleo/Doctor... Sorry, I'll get me coat...

  • @chrisgarry20
    @chrisgarry20 Před 2 měsíci +21

    I have never called it an american muffin. We usually just call it the type of muffin it is. Such as chocolate muffin, blueberry muffin

  • @nicksykes4575
    @nicksykes4575 Před 2 měsíci +38

    If something is "a right carry on" it means it's a complete fiasco.

  • @RoyCousins
    @RoyCousins Před 2 měsíci +16

    The "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters were hardly ever used (if ever) and long forgotten until a pile of them was found in a bookshop in 2000.

    • @andypandy9013
      @andypandy9013 Před 2 měsíci +1

      One! And they were hardly ever issued at the time.
      A single copy was rediscovered in 2000 at Barter Books, a bookshop in Alnwick housed in the old station building.

  • @mskatonic7240
    @mskatonic7240 Před 2 měsíci +16

    5:00 Banger= sausage, usually. Or possibly a firework. Old banger = clapped out old car. Absolute banger = a really cool song.

    • @neuralwarp
      @neuralwarp Před 2 měsíci

      She's a banger ∈ { she's very attractive | she has a lot of sex }

    • @Lily_The_Pink972
      @Lily_The_Pink972 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Head banger=heavy metal music

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Lily_The_Pink972 Or the person, listening to it, or playing it.

    • @andyt8216
      @andyt8216 Před 2 měsíci

      Much better explained. I was surprised he started with fireworks, which if I ever called bangers, I don’t now.

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@stephenlee5929no, the person listening to it would be a metal head, emo, mosher, ect

  • @suefinnegan6185
    @suefinnegan6185 Před 2 měsíci +15

    Bangers and mash with onion gravy is lovely

  • @ulyssesthirteen7031
    @ulyssesthirteen7031 Před 2 měsíci +26

    Realised it was Lawrence and stopped the video. He's gone native and his memories of Britain are too region and class specific.

    • @gabbymcclymont3563
      @gabbymcclymont3563 Před 2 měsíci +9

      He's also lived in Amweica too long and thonks we have not changed.

    • @101steel4
      @101steel4 Před 2 měsíci +4

      He's gone full septic

    • @WookieWarriorz
      @WookieWarriorz Před 2 měsíci +5

      It's not even that he clearly never lived in the UK as an adult because he's just so wrong it's hilarious about so many things

    • @MartinMilnerUK
      @MartinMilnerUK Před 2 měsíci +3

      I love your expression "he's gone native." Ha ha

    • @johnp8131
      @johnp8131 Před 2 měsíci +3

      He's also a sychophant.
      For our American friends, that is not an unwell pachyderm!

  • @vtbn53
    @vtbn53 Před 2 měsíci +86

    Huh? We use words differently? No YOU DO! FFS It's our language after all!

    • @sputukgmail
      @sputukgmail Před 2 měsíci +8

      However, often I find words I think Americans are using “wrong” is actually how we Brits used the word when we abandoned the colony and left them to their own devices. We subsequently changed the rules without bothering to tell them. ;)

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 Před 2 měsíci +6

      Do you know what "differently" means?

    • @vtbn53
      @vtbn53 Před 2 měsíci

      @@nedludd7622 Yes I definitely do, do YOU? Stop being a smart arse and admit that Americans have bastardised the English language.

    • @monty2005
      @monty2005 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@nedludd7622we know what it means. However it is not appropriate for use in this context. Americans are just wrong when they mangle our language

    • @sputukgmail
      @sputukgmail Před 2 měsíci +9

      @@monty2005 no…no they’re not mate. Just as someone in Scotland using words differently to someone in London is not “wrong”, nor is a teenager using words differently to their grandparents.
      English is and always has been an ever changing language. It’s constantly evolving and adapting and adopting different words and usage. American and British English have evolved separately to such an extent that they even have their own separate dictionaries.

  • @Foxbat320
    @Foxbat320 Před 2 měsíci +9

    Carry on can also mean a farce or a mess. "That meeting last night ,what a carry on" . I believe it comes from the British "carry on "series of films ( much missed).

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 Před 2 měsíci +4

      I think the films took the meaning rather than the other way round.

    • @stewedfishproductions9554
      @stewedfishproductions9554 Před 2 měsíci +1

      The films took their titles FROM the expression, "What a right carry-on..." (NOT the other way round). 🤔 Just saying... 😊

  • @Dragonblaster1
    @Dragonblaster1 Před 2 měsíci +6

    "Banger" is not a generic term for fireworks. It's a specific firework that has no visual effects, but you throw it on the ground and it goes bang.

  • @margaretnicol3423
    @margaretnicol3423 Před 2 měsíci +13

    All fireworks are not called 'bangers' just a small one that goes 'bang'!!! The others have their own names like rockets, roman candles, sparklers, catherine wheels, etc..

  • @thedisabledwelshman9266
    @thedisabledwelshman9266 Před 2 měsíci +6

    im convinced that tyler is a MEME.

    • @paulmilner8452
      @paulmilner8452 Před 2 měsíci

      nope he's just very good at acting... he's playing you all for views very clever guy

  • @ianroper2812
    @ianroper2812 Před 2 měsíci +11

    Average American? Nope, make that below average.

  • @tonys1636
    @tonys1636 Před 2 měsíci +2

    The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster was printed by HMSO (the Government Stationery Office until the 70's) but never issued, only discovered after WWII. The brown envelope with HMSO along the top front landing on the doormat was a feared letter as often had a Tax demand inside.

  • @grahamtruckel
    @grahamtruckel Před 2 měsíci +14

    Don't McDonalds in USA offer a sausage and egg or bacon and egg McMuffin for breakfast? That's a muffin. The blueberry or choc chip thing is a cake!

    • @marydavis5234
      @marydavis5234 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yes, but they use a English muffin aka which is close to a British crumpet.

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci +1

      Idk where you're from but muffin and cake are different in the UK, and noone calls English muffins just "muffin", it'd be breakfast muffin, or simply English muffin - the cake type thing, which has a different recipe and is therefore not a cupcake, is just a chocolate chip muffin, or a blueberry muffin

    • @grahamtruckel
      @grahamtruckel Před 2 měsíci

      @@robyntheslytherin I'm in the UK and I call the thing which you toast for breakfast (or any other time) simply a muffin. I think you'll find that's what Sainsburys calls them as well.

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

      @@grahamtruckel that's likely the only place they don't call them Toaster muffins or English muffins. And Sainsbury's also call the cakey type ones "muffins"

  • @rocketrabble6737
    @rocketrabble6737 Před 2 měsíci +2

    The one that is common in Britain and many other countries around he the world is 'Hockey'. The other one is Ice Hockey.

  • @FluffySylveonBoi
    @FluffySylveonBoi Před 2 měsíci +1

    Fun fact: I had my Firefox youtube window only at 90% size and when I loaded this video, it said "Tyler Rump" and I laughed xD

  • @grandmaster8316
    @grandmaster8316 Před 2 měsíci +7

    What we call a muffin is like a blueberry muffin etc, I've never heard it called an american muffin in my life. When we say carry on it means continue doing something. These references are very obscure. Also we don't call fireworks bangers lol, methinks Laurence is running out of ideas

    • @WookieWarriorz
      @WookieWarriorz Před 2 měsíci +2

      Like why the fuck would it be American muffin when Europe had been baking for centuries. America didn't invent shit hahahaha apple pie is British FFS

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

      Carry on means like a chew on, like "works been a right carry on today ", or you can use it to tell someone to stop Messing about, like "stop carrying on"

  • @davidgreener8774
    @davidgreener8774 Před 2 měsíci +2

    LOL Fanny in USA is about two to three inches out from what we call a Fanny in the Uk! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @iainsan
    @iainsan Před 2 měsíci +42

    Whatever we call something is what it is actually called. If you say anything different it's something you've made up in the past 200 years.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 Před 2 měsíci

      You mean something like "soccer"? That is an English word which described what they changed to "football" about 150 years ago.

    • @pjdunnit6753
      @pjdunnit6753 Před 2 měsíci +4

      ​@@nedludd7622 Not really. Soccer is just an informal term to differentiate between 'rugby football' and 'association football'.

    • @elizabethsellors9046
      @elizabethsellors9046 Před 2 měsíci

      Exactly

    • @neuralwarp
      @neuralwarp Před 2 měsíci

      _"No representation without taxation."_ What England says, goes, as far as English is concerned.

    • @scottneil1187
      @scottneil1187 Před 2 měsíci +1

      What about Fall?. The old British word for Autumn, they still use it, we changed it.

  • @thisisjmx
    @thisisjmx Před měsícem +1

    There's a British joke about the English language....
    'There's two versions of the English language, the British way and the wrong way!'

  • @robertlisternicholls
    @robertlisternicholls Před 2 měsíci +4

    He didn't mention another meaning to carry on. It can also mean a bit of a farce or a shambles. I. E. What a carry on this is.

  • @helenroberts1107
    @helenroberts1107 Před 2 měsíci +32

    We don’t call them American muffins. We call them cupcakes even if they’re not iced.

    • @Lily_The_Pink972
      @Lily_The_Pink972 Před 2 měsíci +9

      I grew up in the 50s and 60s calling them buns and if iced, fairy cakes!

    • @kevintipcorn6787
      @kevintipcorn6787 Před 2 měsíci +9

      cupcake was an Americanism when I first heard it on the Simpsons in the early 1990s, fairy cakes were the closest we had, even if they were smaller. When they introduced American sized cakes for fatties they were called American muffins on the labels.

    • @Lovecats200
      @Lovecats200 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Interesting so maybe it’s a regional difference. I live close to London and I’ve always called them American muffin or blueberry/chocolate muffin. I bake and it’s a completely different recipe. Muffins are denser as they have a higher ratio of flour and normally no icing. A cupcake is sweeter and much closer in texture to our fairy cake (but much larger!) they are also normally iced with way too much buttercream frosting!

    • @frankhooper7871
      @frankhooper7871 Před 2 měsíci

      Hmmm - I'd never call them cupcakes; I'd call them muffins - but would say American muffin if I wanted/needed to differentiate from a proper muffin.

    • @GrilloTheFlightless
      @GrilloTheFlightless Před 2 měsíci +1

      Bangers and mash - a favourite with many Brits. My kids love it. We have it once a week. You can have the sausages lying next to the mash on the plate, in an orderly fashion, or you can have a big heap of mash in the middle of your plate with the bangers poking out of it in all directions, like in the kids comic book The Beano.

  • @101steel4
    @101steel4 Před 2 měsíci +4

    We use our language.
    Americans use different words.

    • @paulmilner8452
      @paulmilner8452 Před 2 měsíci

      not to be that guy, but we don't use our language we use a french language thats evolved ...... you think of all the words fibre etc re is a french thing

  • @feldegast
    @feldegast Před 2 měsíci

    In Australia i played hockey at school, 2 different versions... Field hockey and indoor hockey, indoor hockey is similar to ice hockey but it is played on wooden floors with a puck...

  • @vickytaylor9155
    @vickytaylor9155 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Modern field hockey was invented in England, but a similar game originated in Persia several hundred years before. Ice hockey was invented later. They are both related to a game called lacrosse.

    • @neuralwarp
      @neuralwarp Před 2 měsíci

      There's always similarities between inventions. Unless you're Chinese, who invented _everything_ .

    • @WookieWarriorz
      @WookieWarriorz Před 2 měsíci

      Irish Hurling came literally thousands of years before. We have records of hurling being played going back a long long time.

  • @margaretnicol3423
    @margaretnicol3423 Před 2 měsíci +8

    If you ever try to cook bangers and mash - don't forget the onion gravy!

    • @neuralwarp
      @neuralwarp Před 2 měsíci

      Gravy on mash? You philistine! It's butter on mash. Fried onions in the mash sometimes.

    • @margaretnicol3423
      @margaretnicol3423 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@neuralwarp Butter on mash, yes, but also gravy when it's sausage and mash!

    • @WookieWarriorz
      @WookieWarriorz Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@neuralwarpeww are you American. Gravy covers everything. Americans eating sad boiled vegetables without gravy or curry gives me nightmares.

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@neuralwarpnah, beef gravy on sausage and mash like

  • @RileyELFuk
    @RileyELFuk Před 2 měsíci +3

    No, 'cup cakes' are a another American term. Your muffins are still just called muffins over here (You don't see them called 'American Muffins" over here, generally. We can cope with different things having the same name (see mince pies).

  • @Aloh-od3ef
    @Aloh-od3ef Před 2 měsíci +7

    Keep calm
    and carry on… as normal 😉

  • @user-tm3pc5sd2m
    @user-tm3pc5sd2m Před 2 měsíci +5

    Tyler ' brain boils like a kettle

    • @gabbymcclymont3563
      @gabbymcclymont3563 Před 2 měsíci +1

      And swiches off before it gets to the boil.

    • @nolajoy7759
      @nolajoy7759 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Slowly..due to low voltage 😅

    • @weedle30
      @weedle30 Před 2 měsíci

      😮😱🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @martinbynion1589
    @martinbynion1589 Před 2 měsíci +1

    In most of the ENGLISH-speaking world, carrying on can also mean having a hissy fit. 😮 Also, "field hockey" is the most popular version worldwide, eg. In Australia, UK, NZ, Netherlands, India, Pakistan, Argentina, Germany....

  • @johnlow7978
    @johnlow7978 Před 2 měsíci +13

    Tyler I would stop listening to this guy tbh he's more American than British in my opinion dont agree on alot of his vids

    • @michaelpierce826
      @michaelpierce826 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Exactly he lived their way to long when he something about our fridge freezers he think we only have a single freezer that gassed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @colingregory7464
    @colingregory7464 Před měsícem

    As a Film Buff/Nerd? "Carry On --------" is a very long series of often crass film comedies starting with "Carry On Sergeant" (late 40s early 50s? ) and continuing into the 70s (with a later revival)

  • @paulharvey9149
    @paulharvey9149 Před 2 měsíci

    We also have a whole series of comedy films in Britain that are collectively known as "Carry On films," because all of their titles begin with the words, carry on...! For example, Carry on Nurse, Carry on Teacher, Carry on Camping, etc. They are all stuffed with innuendo and double-entendres, and feature exaggerated stereotypes of camp men and really big, dominant women - not to mention a young Barbara Windsor's bust...! Most of the actors are now dead, but were very popular indeed and often featured in TV sit-coms from the 1960s and 70s.

  • @kevintipcorn6787
    @kevintipcorn6787 Před 2 měsíci

    This video reminded me of the old 80s cartoon theme song for Bangers and Mash by Chas and Dave. Somehow I'd forgotten it for the past 3 decades.

  • @glen3679
    @glen3679 Před 2 měsíci

    I've been taught by my British grandmother and British chefs that banger was slang for pork sausage as in bangers and mash

  • @Loulizabeth
    @Loulizabeth Před 2 měsíci +2

    The Muffins one do seem strange to me. As I grew up calling what he calls muffins, English muffins (often cooked on a griddle) the the yeast doughy savoury versions (what Macdonald's uses for their breakfast sandwiches). Different from the other yummy savoury treat the crumpet (similar shape and size but filled with holes) the great conveyor of butter and cheese.
    Then you have sweet cakey muffins. These are big brothers of cup cakes. But muffins are more likely to have added extras such as chocolate, fruit or even some types of vegetable varieties of them (chocolate chip blueberry, carrot cake etc). Cup cakes are the tiny bite size ever so dainty cakes that most often simply made of vanilla or chocolate cake then topped with iced. You also have the fancy versions butterfly cakes which have the tops cut off, halved and stuck back onto the cupcake with buttercream icing so the halved top looks a little bit like a butterfly (kind of).

    • @lindastaines8288
      @lindastaines8288 Před 2 měsíci +2

      We used to call them fairy cakes not cupcakes

    • @Loulizabeth
      @Loulizabeth Před 2 měsíci

      @@lindastaines8288 Yeah I remember that. Now that you say that I think that's what I grew up calling them. The problem comes where you hear things being called so many different things it's sometimes hard to remember which version you grew up with.

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@Loulizabethcup cakes are bigger fairy cakes and usually have alot of icing x

    • @lindastaines8288
      @lindastaines8288 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Loulizabeth true and so many American terms are creeping into common usage

  • @jamesgudgeon4868
    @jamesgudgeon4868 Před 2 měsíci

    There's also Street Hockey 11:34

  • @williamcronogue3014
    @williamcronogue3014 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Watch ,listen, and understand

    • @WookieWarriorz
      @WookieWarriorz Před 2 měsíci +1

      From Laurence, that dude doesn't have a clue what he's on about.

  • @robyntheslytherin
    @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

    Can confirm as a uk person we call English muffins, English muffins, or breakfast muffins - and we call those cupcake type things, just muffins

  • @TerryD15
    @TerryD15 Před 2 měsíci

    A 'banger' firework is one that is lit, fizzes for a few seconds and then explodes 'BANG'. We also play Ice Hockey. We have American muffins in the UK and yes we would call them cakes as they are so sweet, The so-called "English Muffin" is a traditional food (a style of bread) made for many years, so the proper name is simply a 'muffin', the US version is just a type of cupcake and of course for American tastes it has to bereally sweet. The real muffin recipe was first written in a recipe book in 1747 but had been baked by housewives for much longer than that, they were sold warm and buttered as street food by 'muffin men'. Well before the US Constitution was adopted in 1789. We do have American Muffins and very nice they are occasionally.
    Interestingly, Muffin' also has a darker meaning and was used to describe a certain female part of the anatomy which resides between the legs. We also had a children's puppet programme on TV in the 1950s and 60s concerning a Mule called Muffin, as we grew older the joke became "Muffin the Mule is not illegal" obviously referring to it's darker meaning.

  • @margaretnicol3423
    @margaretnicol3423 Před 2 měsíci +10

    I've never heard it called an American muffin - just a muffin. You chose which kind of muffin you want - one of those - or one of those - both called muffins!

    • @pjdunnit6753
      @pjdunnit6753 Před 2 měsíci +2

      He knows. America has had the mcmuffin for over 50 years, that's not a sweet muffin. He just does this because it's guaranteed to get replies, thus upping his view count. It's all about the 💲

    • @margaretnicol3423
      @margaretnicol3423 Před 2 měsíci

      @@pjdunnit6753 I'd forgotten about the McMuffin. Perhaps he had too. At least your comment has added to his $!!!

  • @nolajoy7759
    @nolajoy7759 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Noone under 70 says "young and hip" anymore

  • @dawnekay1567
    @dawnekay1567 Před 2 měsíci

    We have it here in our British Pubs….I rotate from Bangers @nd Mash or the Fish and Chips….YUM 🇨🇦

  • @rocketrabble6737
    @rocketrabble6737 Před 2 měsíci +1

    When I was a youngster we were allowed to save up our money and go to a shop and buy fireworks (not anymore). All we were interested in were penny 'bangers' and or if we were 'flush' tuppenny 'cannons' that were more explosive and louder!
    A banger is, of course, also a sausage. An 'old banger' was a rubbish car that was bought very cheaply to tide you over when you could not afford anything better.

    • @user-xk3ej6jd5h
      @user-xk3ej6jd5h Před 2 měsíci

      Don't forget the Catherine wheel that was my favourite ❤

    • @joyfulzero853
      @joyfulzero853 Před 2 měsíci

      @@user-xk3ej6jd5h Not of interest to 10-year old boys with only limited pocket money!

  • @frankparsons1629
    @frankparsons1629 Před 2 měsíci

    Banger. Sausages because unless you prick them (with a fork) they will probably go "pop" like a small explosion. Also an old car, cos the exhaust can backfire. like a larger explosion.

  • @eddisstreet
    @eddisstreet Před 2 měsíci +1

    Carry On Luggage with Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor

  • @user-kq5ke5yb6k
    @user-kq5ke5yb6k Před 2 měsíci +14

    Goldfish, bangers and mash isn’t new to you.

    • @keefsmiff
      @keefsmiff Před 2 měsíci +1

      Hilarious...not

    • @margaretnicol3423
      @margaretnicol3423 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Boring and rude.

    • @keefsmiff
      @keefsmiff Před 2 měsíci

      @@margaretnicol3423 userkq5 is a serial troll (At least 5 nasty pointless comments on this vid) who is cross because Tyler ignores him ,, I think he is in love with Tyler because only unrequited love turns someone into that much of a twat,

    • @pjdunnit6753
      @pjdunnit6753 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Nor are English muffins.

    • @scottneil1187
      @scottneil1187 Před 2 měsíci +3

      ​@@margaretnicol3423It would be rude if Tyler had ever engaged with his comments, also, what's rude about pointing out he's learnt these terms at least 20 times already?. Not the commentors fault your memory sucks as much as Tyler's

  • @littlescamps
    @littlescamps Před 2 měsíci +1

    Bangers and mash is amazing.

  • @helenwood8482
    @helenwood8482 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Keep calm and carry on was actually never used I the war, because the government decided it was too condescending.

    • @scottneil1187
      @scottneil1187 Před 2 měsíci

      Which is why it was fine to bring back for the modern, moronic sheep

  • @penaarja
    @penaarja Před 2 měsíci

    Omg Tyler, just join Your channels few weeks ago. Now I like To see Your opinions "out of america" 👍from🇫🇮

  • @suefinnegan6185
    @suefinnegan6185 Před 2 měsíci +3

    When I was young hockey was played primarily by girls.

  • @redsoxmom66
    @redsoxmom66 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Tyler..I really like you, BUT I grew up in the US and lived there for most of my life before I decided retire to my birth country of Canada. Igrewupon the East Coast,and English muffns are VERY COMMON here.

  • @David-yz3uo
    @David-yz3uo Před 2 měsíci +3

    The poster Keep care and Carry on,was a post which was printed but no used in WW2,It was to be posted if the Germans invaded.

  • @matshjalmarsson3008
    @matshjalmarsson3008 Před 2 měsíci +2

    A bit funny that I as a non native English speaker knew almost all of this

  • @nolajoy7759
    @nolajoy7759 Před 2 měsíci +3

    The muffins you showed are cake. The "wrapping paper" as you called it is what it it is baked in and that is called a cupcake case..because that sweet style of muffin is a big cupcake and a very unhealthy breakfast indeed!

    • @elainehales3119
      @elainehales3119 Před 2 měsíci

      We call them baking cups in Canada

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

      Not at all, they're blueberry muffins or chocolate chip muffins, cake has a totally different recipe and doesn't usually have the poofy head

  • @derekporter7658
    @derekporter7658 Před 2 měsíci

    What you would call a muffin, we call it a bun.

  • @paulrobson7887
    @paulrobson7887 Před 2 měsíci

    We use muffin here to mean both what you call an English muffin and a muffin but we usually make the distinction by saying what it is, i.e. blueberry muffin, chocolate chip muffin etc. Sausage and egg McMuffins are my favourite item on the McDonald’s UK menu 😊

  • @krimsonking3646
    @krimsonking3646 Před 2 měsíci +1

    The thing that most annoys me is that he didn’t cover biscuit (and gravy despite the 2 NOT going together), because there is a big difference between what Americans think a biscuit (and what gravy is) and what a biscuit (and what gravy) actually are
    Also best example of something being homely I can think of is a good pub (in England, haven’t been to America so don’t know the equivalent there if they are there at all)

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

      You realise Americans have beef gravy too right?👀💀
      Gravy there is still a general thing, like we have chicken gravy, beef gravy, they do too, they just also have white gravy, which is basically bechamel sauce with pork fat 🤮

  • @sputukgmail
    @sputukgmail Před 2 měsíci +7

    17:51 we used to call “American muffins” cupcakes, but the popularity of brands like Starbucks and similar who brought the bigger, more over the top American style over here has led to muffin being used just about as much - but we still also have cupcakes which are the more sensible sized little cakes. So we have both and could point to things and call them different names depending on size / style etc. So now it’s Americans who lack a word for “cupcakes”

    • @robyntheslytherin
      @robyntheslytherin Před 2 měsíci

      Cupcake is an American word... We use it here to mean a larger cake, a smaller one would be called a "fairy cake"

    • @sputukgmail
      @sputukgmail Před 2 měsíci

      @@robyntheslytherin interesting - Fairy cake to me is specifically a cup cake that has had the top cut off, filled with butter icing, then the top cut in half and put back to form two “wings”, making it a fairy cake. :)

  • @clairedavies3873
    @clairedavies3873 Před 2 měsíci

    I have never heard this term ,i agree a carry on, for plane,other than that, to me in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, it means to keep going to carry on with life, get on with it ect...

  • @CarwynAndrews
    @CarwynAndrews Před 2 měsíci +6

    Honestly, I'm British and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "carry on" to refer to an affair. It's usually used to say something along the lines of "keep going" or "continue"

    • @juliajoyce4535
      @juliajoyce4535 Před 2 měsíci

      Same, I always knew the word “Carry on” to mean keep going or to persevere with something not an affair

    • @MartinMilnerUK
      @MartinMilnerUK Před 2 měsíci +1

      Sometimes, although not in the sexual context, we can say things like "That was a right carry on" for something out of control, not going as planned. Or more simply "what a carry on!" (Derbys.)

    • @janewalker3921
      @janewalker3921 Před 2 měsíci +4

      I have always used. 'carry on ' to mean have an affair.

    • @gillchatfield3231
      @gillchatfield3231 Před 2 měsíci +6

      You're probably too young to have used it. Very common in the 60s and perhaps 70s. I would probably still use it with people my age. Not that we carry on much these days 🤣🤣

    • @joannemoore3976
      @joannemoore3976 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Yes I have heard it but it's old fashioned, so and so is carrying on with him/her

  • @IsaacSemple
    @IsaacSemple Před 2 měsíci +6

    This 'Lost in the Pond' guy has literally forgotten half of the words, never heard the word "American muffin" in my life and have never heard an English person say "carry on" as a synonym for affair 😐😐

    • @Lily_The_Pink972
      @Lily_The_Pink972 Před 2 měsíci +7

      I've heard carrying on as in 'he's carrying on with someone else's wife' It also means a fuss or fiasco. Then we have a 'to-do', which means the same. And ding dong!

    • @kevintipcorn6787
      @kevintipcorn6787 Před 2 měsíci

      American muffin was used on large pre-packaged fairy cakes in the 90s and early 00s in places Tesco, Sainsburys, teashops etc.

    • @Lily_The_Pink972
      @Lily_The_Pink972 Před 2 měsíci

      @@kevintipcorn6787 I think I first saw them when a chain of bakery/cafes called BBs opened up. Probably late 90s early 00s.

    • @scottneil1187
      @scottneil1187 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Carry on as a euphemism for affair is very widespread and well known. Never heard of the Carry On films?, what do you think the carry on part was referring to?. Also, do you only converse with English people or are you just one of those folk who pigheadedly say English when you mean British!?.

    • @MartinMilnerUK
      @MartinMilnerUK Před 2 měsíci

      @@Lily_The_Pink972 Yes me too. (Derbys.)

  • @jamesdignanmusic2765
    @jamesdignanmusic2765 Před 2 měsíci +2

    "Carry On" is also known in the UK s the name of a 1960s series of comedy films, which were pretty much to the UK what the Three Stooges movies were to the US. PS - were you deliberately wearing the same shirt as the guy on the video? US-style muffins are called cupcakes in the UK, and "English muffins" are called muffins in England. Scottish (and New Zealand) pikelets are also similar to "English" muffins.

  • @jemmajames6719
    @jemmajames6719 Před 2 měsíci

    I’m English and in my late fifties and played hockey at school on a field, I never knew boys played it, it was considered a girls sport at my school!

  • @johnp8131
    @johnp8131 Před 2 měsíci

    Hockey. What you called "Field Hockey", Great Britain was Olympic mens Gold Medalists in 1920 and 1988 and the Women were Gold Medalists in 2016.
    "Ice Hockey" was pretty big in Britain between the Wars an Britain won Gold at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
    My parents were both born around the end of WW1 and in their teens and early twenties, would go to watch "Wembley Lions" playing Ice Hockey, until WW2 came along! The league collapsed in 1960.

  • @shirleykimber2330
    @shirleykimber2330 Před 2 měsíci

    Yes the savoury flat muffin is called an English muffin, but the sweet version with choc chips or blueberries is also called a muffin

  • @user-kq5ke5yb6k
    @user-kq5ke5yb6k Před 2 měsíci +6

    I’m shocked that you used the word “epiphany” - and that you used it correctly.

    • @keefsmiff
      @keefsmiff Před 2 měsíci +1

      This guy has a bad crush on Tyler and is angry he won't respond, are you in love , unrequited love hurts eh mate

  • @Jamie_D
    @Jamie_D Před 2 měsíci +1

    To me a muffin is a big cup cake

  • @auldfouter8661
    @auldfouter8661 Před 2 měsíci +1

    In Scotland you can say " an on carry " when it's a carry on ( in the sense of some wild behaviour ).

    • @scottneil1187
      @scottneil1187 Před 2 měsíci

      Never heard that in my 48 years here.

    • @auldfouter8661
      @auldfouter8661 Před 2 měsíci

      @@scottneil1187 it would be " as on cairey " - parents and grandparents used it.

  • @AcanthaDante
    @AcanthaDante Před 2 měsíci +1

    In terms of fireworks, if you've seen firecrackers, bangers are one of those tubes containing the powder in isolation.
    Yes muffins exist in the UK, they're a bit more bready than cakes. Unfrosted cupcakes are often called 'fairy cakes'. We do accept that if someone says "chocolate chip muffin" they mean the American variety.

    • @Spiklething
      @Spiklething Před 2 měsíci +1

      Frosting is an Americanism, I would call the thing you put on top of a cake icing, never frosting

    • @AcanthaDante
      @AcanthaDante Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@Spiklething I am aware, but I was using the term because I didn't want to risk going down a rabbit hole and Tyler uses the term in the video so it was fresh in my mind.

  • @colingregory7464
    @colingregory7464 Před měsícem

    We have in recent years imported Muffins to the uk but they are just Muffins, you look at them and immediately know that one is not the other (as long as you are not shopping on line !)

  • @davesimpson5702
    @davesimpson5702 Před 2 měsíci

    We have won Olympic Gold in Hockey a few times!

  • @bats-are-just-Puppy-with-wings

    I thought " carry on " was another way of saying messing with or joking about.
    'I'm only *carrying on* with you'

  • @judiharris8796
    @judiharris8796 Před 2 měsíci +4

    An American muffin is definitely a cake! Very unhealthy breakfast. Our muffins date back centuries and were the originals. There's even an old song about them..

    • @pjdunnit6753
      @pjdunnit6753 Před 2 měsíci +2

      American mcmuffin. Over 50 years old. He knows what an English muffin is.

    • @WookieWarriorz
      @WookieWarriorz Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@pjdunnit6753bro an English muffin in America is a shitty scone.

    • @pjdunnit6753
      @pjdunnit6753 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@WookieWarriorz They have scones too, they just call them 'biscuits'. The egg mcmuffin is nothing like a scone, and it's about the only the I'd eat if I still used mackies (which I don't anymore)

  • @dorothysimpson2804
    @dorothysimpson2804 Před 2 měsíci

    We do not say English or, American Muffins, we just say "two Blueberry Muffins please", they come in many varieties. Our other muffins are bread items.
    I am surprised he didn't mention the iconic "Carry On" films, typical British humour of the past.

  • @nedludd7622
    @nedludd7622 Před 2 měsíci +1

    "Carry on" is also used as in "What are you carrying on about?" meaning what are you complaining about.
    To learn more about the British political system, you should watch the TV series "Yes, Minister". There is an episode where they talk about the banger(sausage). It is described as an "emulsified high-fat offal tube" with these characteristics "The average British sausage consists of 32.5% fat, 6.5% rind, 20% water, 10% rusk, 5% seasoning, preservative and colouring, and only 26% meat, which is mostly gristle, head meat, other offcuts and mechanically-recovered meat steamed off the carcasses."
    It is surprising that you don't know another American use of "banger" which means a member of a criminal gang: "There was a fight between gang bangers."

    • @wessexdruid7598
      @wessexdruid7598 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Don't presume Tyler EVER reads his comments. He's here just for the money.

  • @Indecisive7337
    @Indecisive7337 Před 2 měsíci

    Now be honest, have you heard Muffin the Mule complaining ?

  • @kathleenmayhorne3183
    @kathleenmayhorne3183 Před 2 měsíci

    We call cupcakes, pattycakes in aus. The papers are patty papers, they come in that shape. Have you seen butterfly cakes? We have english muffins too, and the 4x bigger muffins are muffins, like yours. The english use gingerbread slices, or a plain piece of pastry, covered in a loose ginger concoction. In aus gingerbread is a ginger flavoured cake, either sliced and buttered if you like, or cut into squares. It can be iced with lemon icing or not.
    In aus, a homely woman is a plain faced person, in plain clothes, shy, not beautiful, but not really ugly either. Everybody has value, not just for their looks. A plain person can have a brilliant brain, loves and can be hurt, just like you. Are geeks all handsome? Do you have to be beautiful to write hit songs? Have the best hair? NO! All sorts of jobs need to be done to keep the community running. If we look down on garbologists, or sewer workers, or home makers, say lets not have such lowly folk, the system would quickly break down completely. Somebody "has" to do it! Everybody is valuable. Would families survive without farmers to grow food? What about college students? Where does your daily bread come from, the bacon and eggs, peanut butter and jelly etc.? Would white folk even live in America without immigration, and you very nearly had to speak german, would Mexicans speak Spanish? Bullying and racism are the fall-back of not-so-bright folk. Think about it!

  • @tulipwindmill
    @tulipwindmill Před 2 měsíci

    What he showed us, I would call a muffin, as do most supermarkets. Never seen them referred to as American muffins. The other type, I don't eat. Cupcake is American, they were always fairy cakes when I was a kid. If the top was cut off, split and stuck in butter icing on the top, it was a butterfly cake/ UK for years only had icing or butter icing, we never had frosting, that is also American.

  • @scotmax8426
    @scotmax8426 Před 2 měsíci

    i'm Scottish, and where i'm from we'd call what you call a muffin, a bun.

  • @carabingham3207
    @carabingham3207 Před 2 měsíci

    lol you got the clean version of it.

  • @robertlisternicholls
    @robertlisternicholls Před 2 měsíci

    Very enjoyable. Thanks Tyler.

  • @amalsp8955
    @amalsp8955 Před 2 měsíci

    I am a new subscriber

  • @dawnekay1567
    @dawnekay1567 Před 2 měsíci

    Banger is a hit song….

  • @pathopewell1814
    @pathopewell1814 Před 2 měsíci

    Five fat sausages sizzling in the pan, one went pop and one went bang, childrens' ryhme.😊

  • @DreadEnder
    @DreadEnder Před 2 měsíci +3

    I think the origin of the different words and phrases is that the people who took the language across were illiterate. I couldn’t find any papers on it though and just one article saying this.

    • @Lily_The_Pink972
      @Lily_The_Pink972 Před 2 měsíci

      Words like fawcett, diaper and drapes are English words that were in use when the Pilgrim Fathers settled in America and their language developed differently there than it did in the UK. British English has been subject to many different influences in the last 500 years or so than the US so words still in use in the US have gone out of use here in the UK.

    • @Lily_The_Pink972
      @Lily_The_Pink972 Před 2 měsíci +1

      When I was a kid in postwar Britain we didn't have what Tyler calls a muffin. We had small bitesize cakes called buns or fairy cakes. The 'wrapping paper' is a bun case. I don't think I saw an American muffin or cupcake in the UK until about 25 years ago.

    • @DreadEnder
      @DreadEnder Před 2 měsíci

      @@Lily_The_Pink972 yeah, plus with how much influence on the media America has has during and since WWII after it earned so much money selling weapons to Britain and Germany that the lines have blurred.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@Lily_The_Pink972
      *Faucet* (tap)
      (Fawcett was Farah Fawcett Majors, the late actress from "Charlie's Angels")

  • @richjames2540
    @richjames2540 Před měsícem

    This guy from the North of England has many many posts about how different the US and UK are I believe he often loses the plot in the process. Carry on in UK can mean bags you bringing with you into the Cabin. Hand Luggage and Carry on are a bit dated it should be called wheel on. Carry on as per the poster means continue and is a bit archaic. Carry on and carrying on can also mean someone making a fuss over nothing or doing things that are not needed to do the task at hand. What is all that carry on in the street? They are arguing over which car caused the accident. She has been carrying on with a married man in secret.

  • @user-ox9ec1id9x
    @user-ox9ec1id9x Před 2 měsíci

    Carry on = continue with what you are doing. A carry on is a funny happening.
    Banger, sausage, because they sometimes pop & spit when frying, like a firework. A specific type of firework which just explodes with a bang. A clapped out old car.
    Hocky in the UK is a field sport, without ice. Homely = a cosy, comfortable house.
    An American 'muffin' is nothing like a genuine English muffin, but a like a large cup cake.
    The American muffin is now common in the UK, but not as a breakfast food, more often as a snack, like other cakes. What Americans call 'frosting' is icing in the UK, & it may be hard or soft. On wedding & Christmas cakes it is usually hard, on some smaller items it is soft.

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 Před 2 měsíci

      Carry on, can also be a command to, stop doing this and go about your normal business, such as 'Carry on sergeant', 'nothing to see here', used to disperse a crowd, 'OK you's lot, carry on about your business'

  • @reggy_h
    @reggy_h Před 2 měsíci

    Why is it that when I hear "Bangers and Mash" I always immediately think " Ministroni" or "Macaroni"? 😁 Rhetorical question.

  • @johamlett27
    @johamlett27 Před 2 měsíci +3

    That’s not a muffin, it’s a barm cake (that’ll confuse him) 😂

    • @scottneil1187
      @scottneil1187 Před 2 měsíci +1

      If he had ever once looked at his comments, then yes, he never has though.

  • @mskatonic7240
    @mskatonic7240 Před 2 měsíci

    3:32 that's not a very common usage tbh. If you did use it that way, it's generally obvious from context and generally 'carrying on with' rather than just carry on. Carry-on in the plane luggage sense is just your hand luggage

    • @WookieWarriorz
      @WookieWarriorz Před 2 měsíci

      Americans can't handle phrases and words being fluid and change based on context. Words have to mean one thing and one thing only to them or they get confused.

  • @melanieatkinson5114
    @melanieatkinson5114 Před 2 měsíci

    Hi ,Tyler, I think you are so sweet. I played hockey too. Homely is a snuggle place

  • @jaz7912
    @jaz7912 Před 2 měsíci

    English muffins are an American invention loosely based on a British oven bottom muffin. We got English muffins from the USA not the other way around.

  • @patriciaferguson9204
    @patriciaferguson9204 Před 2 měsíci

    Remember, G. B. Shaw said that Americans and Brits are two nations divided by a common language.

  • @101steel4
    @101steel4 Před 2 měsíci

    Muffins are muffins. The blueberry type are cakes.

  • @cassandramcfadyen1988
    @cassandramcfadyen1988 Před 2 měsíci

    Wait till you hear about "bubble and squeek'

  • @wwfcdunc
    @wwfcdunc Před 2 měsíci +7

    We dont use banger for fireworks in the UK, and the car term is 'an old banger'. This guy seems a bit out of touch with his UK roots lol

    • @bertionoone
      @bertionoone Před 2 měsíci

      I thought he was going to suggest a good song was a banger... which I guess is a little dated too.

    • @enemde3025
      @enemde3025 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I don't know where you come from but we always call them BANGERS .

    • @RAGING_MIRAGE
      @RAGING_MIRAGE Před 2 měsíci +1

      We call the ones that don't light up bangers. Them little ones that just go bang.

    • @davidjackson2580
      @davidjackson2580 Před 2 měsíci

      We certainly used banger for a particular type of firework when I was young. I haven't bought fireworks for many decades though, as bonfire night tends to revolve around organised displays these days.

    • @RAGING_MIRAGE
      @RAGING_MIRAGE Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@davidjackson2580 Bangers are illegal now in the UK. They were extremely loud and people would just throw them everywhere.

  • @thisisjmx
    @thisisjmx Před měsícem

    I'm British and live in Wales. The muffins you call muffins, we also call muffins. I never never heard of an American muffin or an English muffin, they are just muffins.